Remixing woes, or thereabouts

 
My daughter (sroni) tells me she’s already finished her assignment for remixredux08. Thanks, Roni, I really needed to feel like an underachiever. I have an idea where I’ll be going with mine — I’ve even picked a title, though I’m still trying to come up with the funky remix subtitle — but actually getting the story done, well, not so great on that. I took a try at starting the other night before I went to bed, even got about 200 words in, and then foundered. I’ll push through, I always do, but at the moment I’m getting nowhere.

With the circumstances being as they are, I decided to make an experiment of this one. Ever since Kuwait in ’03, I’ve done all my composing in longhand, being sure to finish a story before I transcribe it into digital storage. That works well and really suits me, but I’ve kept thinking that I could substantially speed up the output if I could become comfortable with keyboard composition. With this particular story, I have a fairly solid idea where I’ll be going and how I’ll get there, so I’m trying to do it entirely without pencil/paper. Keyboard only.

Harder than it sounds, at least for me. Maybe I’ll get farther over the weekend.